Germany abolishes itself

In 2010, the bestselling book Deutschland schafft sich ab (‘Germany Abolishes Itself‘) was released. Its author, Thilo Sarrazin – a member of the Social Democratic Party – argued that Muslim immigration had been a net negative to the Federal Republic and that, left unchecked, Germany would in time become Islamised and much the worse off.

Many Germans agreed with his thesis, with the book going on to sell over a 1.5 million copies. Naturally, the contents were decried by Establishment figures and their useful idiots in media, who, it can be presumed, did not read the book but nevertheless dutifully and performatively expressed their cretinous outrage.

The book that made Germans’ heads explode.

I witnessed this first hand as an undergraduate on my year abroad in Berlin, studying there in 2011-12. Like a fish out of water in Europe’s most horrifically liberal metropolis, I enjoyed watching the Germans tear themselves into a frenzy whenever a fact or opinion threatened their carefully constructed (aka head-in-the-sand) worldview.

In Germany, expressions of left-wing violence are far more commonly seen, hence to speak out against progressive shibboleths is more dangerous than it is in Blighty. The radical left there are more thuggish and smooth-brained: dealing with the legacy of the Third Reich, the German leftist believes that in order to rectify a violent, immoral history they must clad themselves in black and beat people up in the streets who disagree with them.

No one ever claimed they were geniuses.

Dummies. Picture from faz.net

Sarrazin went on to publish other books which provoked screeches of outrage from the usual quarters, including ‘The New Moral Terror: On the limits of freedom of expression in Germany’ (2014) and ‘Hostile Takeover: How Islam hinders progress and threatens society’ (2018). In an era of disastrously stifling consensus, Mutti Merkel reigning until 2020, he was often a lone voice decrying Germany’s descent into a lawless, third-world dump.

What he foresaw many now see daily with alarming clarity. Signs of decline in Germany manifest to see. Travel to any village, town or city and you will see the marks of its insane policies. What were once quiet towns have become the dumping ground for the developing world’s detritus, with litter and mess strewn everywhere. As a fairly regular visitor to the country, the gradual yet inexorable degradation of the country is evident. Quaint spa towns once full of retirees on trips are now full of dark-skinned young men, loitering around as headscarved women wonder past.

It is a morally beaten country.

It is now a country where each week brings fresh reports of heinous crimes committed across the land. What was once shocking – Cologne’s New Year’s Eve sexual assaults in 2015-16, for example – has become the daily. Scanning cursorily at the news the other day, I found these articles:

• In Hamburg, a 15 year-old girl is gangraped by migrants. Initially assaulted by one group, they invite others to take part in the sick crime via a messaging app. The perpetrators are from ‘Germany’, Armenia, Afghanistan, Kuwait and Montenegro. A woman who criticised one of the barbarians was later charged with a hate crime, spending a night in the cells, in contrast to all but one of the rapists who escape any punishment.

• A 20 year-old was beaten in Bad Oeynhausen so severely that he died soon after of his severe brain injuries. He was attacked by a group of ten immigrants, the killer later revealed to hail from Syria.

• In Gera, a gang of Syrians and Afghans film themselves violently assaulting a native German boy in broad daylight.

• An ‘African-looking’ man firebombs a shop run by Arabs in Solingen, leading to severe injuries.

• A gang of migrants attacks what appears to be native Germans in Trossingen, a town of only 17,500. As they fall to the floor they are further kicked and beaten.

All of the above took place within an incredibly short period of time, offering a mere snapshot of what is underway in Germany. Let us recall that it was only a month ago that a German policeman – a man of only 29 years old – was slaughtered by a radical Muslim in Mannheim, followed a week later by an AfD politician being stabbed in the very same city.

Murder on the streets of Germany.

There is very little surprise, then, that the AfD is doing well in the polls in Germany. Despite being handicapped by the legacy of historical guilt, not all Germans are entirely blind to the devastation being wrought on their nation. What was once one of the safest, most pleasant places on earth was reduced to a violence-ridden Bedlam by its catastrophically traitorous politicians.

Fourteen years on from Sarrazin’s aptly titled book, Germany is still very much abolishing itself in front of our eyes. Some may be tempted to enjoy a moment of Schadenfreude in all of this, given the relentlessness of the German establishment’s pious pontificating.

Yet let us not confuse the ordinary people for their government. The Hanz and Fritz of the Bierkeller don’t want to see Germany disappear, hence we witness the growing embers of resistance in the form of the AfD. Instead, it is their elite – just as ours – who would happily see their nation erased from the map of the world.  

At such moments we must remember that it is us, the ordinary people, who have to stick together. After all, I want to see a French France, a German Germany and a British Britain.

To modify the slogan of a German of another era: Patriots of the world, unite!